Part 2 (Obituaries) - King's College - University of Cambridge

HAROLD CHARLES PERCIVAL HAVERS (1921) was born in Arundel,
Sussex, on 21 November 2001 and educated at Cheltenham.At King’s he read
Maths and Mechanical Sciences and later worked as a civil engineer. He
married in 1955 and was the author of Underground Railways of the World, which
was published in 1966. Harold died in January 1997.
MICHAEL EDWARD HAWTHORNE (1949) was born in Prescot on 10
September 1929 and attended Prescot Grammar School. From 1947 to 1949
he served with the Royal Artillery in Palestine and Egypt. Michael came up to
King’s as an Exhibitioner to read Natural Sciences and also played hockey for
the College. He then returned to Prescot to work for British Insulated
Callender’s Cables Ltd, the largest employer in the area. Initially an apprentice,
Michael worked his way up through the company to become Senior Special
Projects Engineer. In 1961 he married Gladys Yates, who died in May 1992.
Michael died on 24 April 1997.
LAURENCE JOSEPH HENRY ERIC HAYEK (1954), son of the free-market
economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, stepped out of his father’s
shadow to become an important figure in his own chosen field of
microbiology. He devoted the last years of his life to managing his father’s
intellectual legacy and its physical accoutrements, both by accepting the
posthumous tributes to his father that poured in consistently from around the
world, and as the creator and steward of a travelling display of Friedrich
Hayek’s academic memorabilia.
Larry had spent a few years in Cambridge even before he came up to read
Medicine in 1954. The LSE, where his father held a professorship, was
transferred to Peterhouse during the war, and with the help of Friedrich’s
friend and academic adversary John Maynard Keynes, a place was found for
Larry at the King’s College Choir School. Although the two scholars are
presented as academic rivals, Keynes and Hayek were friends when in
Cambridge and even took shifts on the roof of the King’s Chapel on fire-watch
during the War.
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